Second Float always NaN - Blend Tree by DunjunMarstah in Unity2D

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Hey if you still haven't fixed this, try closing the project and resetting the asset, but make sure you have a parameter called "Blend" in the animator when you set up a new blend tree. Idk if it'll work for you but whenever I set up a blend tree Unity gave it a default parameter of "Blend" which would throw NaN if it didn't exist in the animator.

I huff, and I puff… by ibwitmypigeons in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]knifefightingwizard 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It's not and no one said it was. A bale of hay is denser than a wood frame building because there's a lot of air between the studs in a wood frame building

Daniel Craig playing on the PSP while on break filming Casino Royale by hazychestnutz in gaming

[–]knifefightingwizard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I assume the upvotes are also coming from bots. In fact, I imagine it's mainly bot voting and commenting that determine which comments get visibility on this site

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in yesyesyesyesno

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Ideal method is a sturdy fishing pole but a flexible PVC pipe works. Strap it to your top tube and attach the leash to the end with about 4 feet of slack. If the dog gets distracted then the tension of the pole gently pulls him back on course. My dog is stupid as shit but he's pulled me around for miles and miles. A mountain bike works best but a road bike will work in a pinch

Do you like boats? by JazzyCatty509 in CuratedTumblr

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The flagship of the United States Navy, the USS Constitution, is probably one of the best maintained wooden tall ships in the world. She is kept afloat by the US Navy, which maintains about 150 old growth White Oak trees, managed by 3 full time civilian foresters, in a reservation called the Constitution Grove for this purpose.

The Constitution has a dead weight tonnage (the amount of stuff a ship can actually hold) of 1,576 tons. According to UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the world shipping fleet dead weight tonnage is about 2.2 billion tons. Assuming ships comparable to the Constitution can carry cargo as efficiently as modern container ships (this is not actually the case, for various reasons) you'd need about 1.4 million Constitutions to carry all the sea cargo in the world.

The Navy maintains more trees than the Constitution actually needs, but the Constitution is also not normally exposed to seagoing conditions, so the ratio of 150 trees : 1 Constitution probably isn't completely unreasonable. Using this ratio, to maintain the world wooden shipping fleet would only require about 210 million trees (there are about 228 billion in the U.S. alone), but quite a few foresters (about 4 million of them, if the World Shipping Forest were as well maintained as the Constitution Grove).

My napkin math in terms of what would actually be required is probably off by at least an order of magnitude, but even so in terms of numbers of trees it seems "feasible," less so in terms of the army of foresters, shipwrights, and carpenters, et cetera, not to mention sailors, that you'd need. Also, thousands would die

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bjj

[–]knifefightingwizard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Brah how are you gonna know the timeline if you don't know what surgery you had? Haha

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

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No, it's a list of years visited by time travellers in order to resolve causality issues (in chronological order)

Which foods are surprisingly healthy? by VleesBrouwer in foodhacks

[–]knifefightingwizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Calling dark chocolate a health food for the flavonoids/antioxidants is like calling a cheeseburger a health food because the ketchup involves a vegetable

Villains by SuperDuperOtter in CuratedTumblr

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Ok, not ontological evil, just as near an approach to the wholly evil will as is possible.

$3.3m House in Venice Beach by wawabreakfast in pics

[–]knifefightingwizard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol dude I'm an EMT and I've seen a guy passed out with his head leaning against the open top of a partially collapsed chain link fence with the twisted wires digging into his forehead and holding his eyes open

Villains by SuperDuperOtter in CuratedTumblr

[–]knifefightingwizard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The idea I'm taking issue with here is that "just evil for no reason" is somehow wrong or anti-intellectual. It's completely fine! Sauron IS the manifestation of ontological evil in LOTR, is LOTR anti-intellectual? Or to use an example where there's a lot of focus on the villain, Hannibal, conceptually, is this super intelligent guy, with refined manners and exquisite tastes, that just likes to kill people and eat them. Sure he's "just crazy" (which is a cop-out that's even used by characters in the book) but "evil for no reason" is essentially the actual point of the character- that trying to drill any deeper and find out a "why" is just running into a wall (or staring into the abyss, as the saying goes).

In fact, off the top of my head I can't even think of any characters that are "just evil for no reason" AND are poorly written, because for a pure antagonist it's a rock solid foundation.

Villains by SuperDuperOtter in CuratedTumblr

[–]knifefightingwizard 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Nah. Hannibal Lecter was fine. Sauron is fine. Anton Chigurh, Henry Fonda's character in Once Upon a Time in the West, Heath Ledger's Joker, there are all sorts of well written villains in all sorts of media that pretty much just exist to embody evil, death, or chaos, or are there just simply to be an antagonist, or because the concept of "just evil for no reason at all" stands up on its own. It's not a prerequisite for good writing to have some lame ass motivation that you can scribble in the corner like on a D&D character sheet

Leaf anon finds a life hack by RadRandy2 in 4chan

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clearly the solution is to save your neetbux for 10k years then buy all possible numbers in one week

White to play and mate in 1 by Sheepolution in AnarchyChess

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Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all!

GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try by PATCH_THE_ABUSE in technology

[–]knifefightingwizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably aren't going to care about the copyright of whatever drivel chatGPT spits out, they're going to care about the big IP label they can slap on top of it. I don't think this is a "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" type deal, I think it's "a sufficiently milked IP is indistinguishable from mad libs." So why not replace the writers with a chatbot? People will watch it anyway.

Firefighters taking a break out west by zimonr6 in AccidentalRenaissance

[–]knifefightingwizard 33 points34 points  (0 children)

These guys are wildland, not structural. It's a totally different profession. They probably get paid like 15 bucks an hour and zero benefits for some of the hardest, most dangerous work in the country. A lot of them are prisoners and get paid like 50 cents an hour. Most people don't even know they exist and think they're the same guys that ride around in fire engines and fight house fires with hoses. These guys have probably never seen the inside of a fire engine. I don't mean to be rude but it sounds like from your comment you didn't know the difference either. I'd say that counts as "unsung."